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Norton CottageCottage at Norton, near Evesham, Worcestershire with three small girls outside playing with a hoop Date: 1912
Traditional RolesOne girl wants to be a suffragette when she grows up; the other wants to get married. Date: 1904
ALVAs LAST RIDE / 1573Alvas last ride through Amsterdam. Date: 1573
Music cover, Wonderful Girl, Wonderful Boy, Wonderful Time, by Fred Thompson and Hugh E Wright, music by Nat D Ayer, from Charles B Cochrans production of Houp-La, a comedy with music. 1917
Young girl with a hoopCome and play. Pretty young girl posing with her wooden hoop. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1922
HoopsSilhouette of children playing with a hoop. Artist: Anon. Date: circa 1930
1960s fashionModel wearing a lilac spotted Tricel shirt with deep plum bellbottoms. Both by Londonus. The leather flat shoes are from Russell and Bromley and the hoop earrings from Corocraft
Clown with paper hoop on a greetings cardClown grinning through a paper hoop on a greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Clown with head through paper hoop on a greetings cardClown with his head through a paper hoop on a greetings card. circa 1890s
Advertisement, Solar Tip ShoesAdvertisement for Solar Tip Shoes, made by John Mundell & Co of Philadelphia, USA. Showing girls and boys playing in their genuine Solar Tip footwear
Frontispiece illustration, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell -- As the sun was going down... we stopped at the principal hotel in the market place. Date: circa 1930
Eight girls hold aloft ninth on gym bench posing with hoop Date: 1930s
Children in period costume, Lanhydrock House, CornwallChildren in period costume at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, taking part in an educational visit which included dancers from the Royal Ballet. Date: circa 1980s
Children and fountain, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Colonials playing croquet, India. Date: circa 1890s
Blurred image of child with hoop and stickA blurred image of a child playing with a hoop and stick -- evidently moving along at speed!
Women running a race with hoopsFour women running a race with hoops. A spectator watches, smiling, probably glad she isn t having to take part!
German Folk DancingTradional folk dancing in Germany. Date: 1930s
Croquet - postcard illustrating side strokes and drivesCroquet - a fantastic postcard of exquisite quality illustrating a wide variety of side strokes and drives. Date: circa 1910s
Girls having fun in the park playing with hoops and dollsYoung French Girls having fun in the park playing with hoops and dolls Date: circa 1907
Southern Egyptian Girl - Sudan - with silver crescent moonA profile portrait Southern Egyptian Girl, from the modern Sudan, with blue headscarf and large hooped gold earrings - framed by a silver crescent moon Date: circa 1907
Young boy tucking in at the Ice Cream stall " Don t e make a gawd of is stummick? Why, thats the second a porth I ve seed I m ave this mornin !" Date: 1902
Northumberland House and Charing Cross, by John Paul (1804-1887), painted in an 18th century style. Date: circa 1850s
Photograph from an automatic camera suspended from net taken 25 August 1907 at East Horden, Essex. In the hoop: Oswald Short and the Hon Claud Brabazon
Circus montage, including chimps tea party; an elephant, woman standing on a horese, dolphin, a seal balancing a ball and a dog jumping through a clowns hoop
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Silhouette of Dutch childrenSilhouette of three Dutch children and their pet dog. The boy on the left is playing with his hoop and stick, while the boy and girl in the centre are flying a kite
Street music: Organ grinder, 1872A Civil War veteran turns his hand to organ grinding in New York, 1872. Date: 1872
Two boys running, one of them with a hoop and stick. first published 1879
Clown in traditional dress holding a hoop
On the Wall TopA mother and her three children go for a walk along the city wall. 1885
Hungarian Hoop DancersHungarian girls performing a frenzied hoop dance to the wild strains of an accordion! Date: 1930s
Dance MontageA young woman in a bikini, doing a keep fit dance with a hoop. Date: 1930s
Bolero Dress
Twelve sisters standing hand in handTwelve sisters, the Miss Pelicoes, standing hand in hand. first published 1879
Illustration, Happy Days, showing two young mothers with their five children chatting in the street. 1885
Music Hall performer, actress and singer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) - pictured with a large German Shephard dog. Date: circa 1910
Children playing with hoops and sticksChildren playing with their hoops and sticks, trying to see how fast they can go. One of them has fallen over. first published 1879
Basketball at the 1948 London OlympicBritain lost to China 54 to 25 in this basketball match at Harringay Arena. Britain on the whole did badly in this event. Date: 1948
Basketball at the 1948 London OlympicsIn this sparsely-attended basketball match at Harringay Arena, the American team (in white) beat the Swiss team. Date: 1948
Hooping Boy and PupsA boy with a hoop and three excited puppies. Date: circa 1890
Sulky Girl C1900A little girl leans against a wall and sulks - perhaps she has no-one to play with... Date: circa 1900
Five Assorted ChildrenBoy: knickerbocker, jacket, sailor hat, red socks, heeled boots. Girls: lace dress, yoke bodice, pink sash on hips; kilted skirt, jacket bodies & tie-back skirts
Duckpond in WinterTwo little girls and their dog visit a duckpond in winter to feed the ducks. Date: circa 1880
Malby family at leisure in their gardenThe Malby family (two children, and a woman in a deckchair) at leisure in their garden at Woodford, Essex
London Life front cover featuring the model RoFront cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London
Hoopee by Muriel DawsonA happy little girl in a blue coat with mittens holds up a colourful hula hoop
Musical Croquet / W H RobinsonCharming additions to the game of Croquet - bells on the hoops and musical horns on the mallets. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)
